Jo Ann Puffinbarger Coday

© Enid News and Eagle

04-26-2010

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

The funeral for Jo Ann Coday, 77, of Byron, will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 28, 2010, at Driftwood Christian Church. Pastor Gib Clark will officiate. Burial will be in Byron-Amorita Cemetery. Arrangements are by Goodwin Funeral Home, Cherokee.

She was born Aug. 15, 1932, to Arthur and Esther Cox Puffinbarger and died Saturday, April 24, 2010, in Enid.

She attended Byron and Amorita schools, graduating from Amorita High School in 1950. She lived in Wichita, Kan., and California for a time, moving back to Byron in 1960, where she worked as a nurse aid at Cherokee Hospital. She later opened Tighe's Cafe.

She married Kenneth Coday Oct. 22, 1969.

She was a member of Cherokee Hospital board and Burlington FFA Boosters Club. She also was a member of Byron Christian Church, now known as the Ridin'4 Him Cowboy Baptist Church.

Surviving are her children, Claudette Parker of Lancaster, Calif., Beverly Hankey of Amorita, Melissa Parscale of Richardson, Texas, and R.L. Coday of Alva; three sisters, Betty Boyle, Martha Bowers and Mary McPherson; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth, and two brothers.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home, 106 W. 2nd, Cherokee, OK 73728, to Burlington Educational Foundation.

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